Demo party mania: what we made at MozFest

What did you make at MozFest 2012?

Here’s some of the inspired webmaking on display at the closing Mozilla Festival demo party. Our intrepid team of reporters worked at lightning speed to record as much of the awesomeness as possible. But we know we missed some! Please add it to the demo party pad and let us know so we can include it on this virtual demo party page. Think of it as a mini MozFest to share with friends.

New Thimble Project: Poster Making

“I asked the question: ‘what new Thimble project would be useful?’ Someone mentioned students and I thought of school posters, so I hacked together a potential template project for Thimble. I focused on adding class levels to make it as simple and flexible as possible.”

“I would like to ensure that anyone with very little web knowledge can do this project.”

“I made a real-time video effects compositor. You can use it to apply very complex video effects to any video image or canvas.”

“I’d love to create a graphical interface for it. As a standalone application, and also integrated right into Popcorn Maker.

I was inspired by… Dave Humphrey has a new addition to Popcorn where you can mimic an HTML5 video element. That’s amazing because it will help us solve problems like using Popcorn Maker to rea full-on video editing with multiple source videos…. It opens up the tool to actual professional video editing. Imagine Popcorn Maker as Final Cut Pro. And Seriously.js as AfterEffects.

“I made a community-powered radio tool. Re-imagining community and radio online, using Source Fabric’s Air Time. New workflows for community content producers.”

I’d love to… “unify the social experience around audio and radio. Redefine what community means in online, transitioning from geography-based community to shared experiences and affinities. And workflow. Building on top of AirCloud and Sound Cloud API to create a simple service for people to create new audio content and push it into the AirTime environment.”

I was inspired by… “the amount of energy and ideas that people brought to sessions here.”

“We built a platform to play bingo with all the badges available at MozFest.”

“Badge Bingo could be used for any event. But really it was about interacting and learning more about how badges are being used, and what issuing platforms are in use.”

I was inspired by… “the livestreaming blimp. The personality and intelligence of the Mozilla team. This community. There’s something powerful about this community. It’s fun, real, authentic, and there’s a unique texture to it.”

I’d love to… “drive even more interest in Firefox OS and how to contribute. A lot of people asked about how to get started. You can get started on a really small scale! With your friends and family, on Webmaker projects, code parties, or Firefox OS devices and learning more about them.”

I was inspired by… “the whole Webmaker thing. People were really enthusiastic about creating stuff on the web. Web professionals, journalists, teenagers. It’s great to see that they can come up with their own stuff and make it happen!”

“We ran a session on making Mobile Webmaker, working on the problems of connectivity in the developing world.”

“I would like to make it really easy for a citizen journalist to capture an audio and image file, and be able to batch upload when they reach a connectivity point. Ultimately, Zeega gives us the opportunity to tell the story in a more complete way.”